The cost of bin Laden: $3 trillion over 15 years

SmashMouth · 05-06-2011, 09:57 AM

Originally Posted by papz

By conservative estimates, bin Laden cost the United States at least $3 trillion over the past 15 years, counting the disruptions he wrought on the domestic economy, the wars and heightened security triggered by the terrorist attacks he engineered, and the direct efforts to hunt him down.

The cost of bin Laden: $3 trillion over 15 years - Yahoo! News

Not to mention the countless of lives lost.

There is no doubt the cost has been very high ... but just how indeed did they come up with that very figure? Might it be a segue to some future or current cost justification? Hmmmmmmm!

05-06-2011, 09:57 AM	#1
SmashMouth I donated, did you? Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Mandeville, LA Posts: 38,969 Blog Entries: 29	Originally Posted by papz By conservative estimates, bin Laden cost the United States at least $3 trillion over the past 15 years, counting the disruptions he wrought on the domestic economy, the wars and heightened security triggered by the terrorist attacks he engineered, and the direct efforts to hunt him down. The cost of bin Laden: $3 trillion over 15 years - Yahoo! News Not to mention the countless of lives lost. There is no doubt the cost has been very high ... but just how indeed did they come up with that very figure? Might it be a segue to some future or current cost justification? Hmmmmmmm!